Cubehouse

Refers to Kaaba (cube-house), a structure within the Great Mosque at Mecca.

This begins a half-paragraph teeming with references to Islam. In early 1938, Joyce read and annotated the first 101 pages of "The Story of Mohammed," a 189-page biography by Edith Holland. He incorporated some of this material in these lines from page 5 of Wake, twelve years after the page's first draft.

For much more, go to

http://www.antwerpjamesjoycecenter.com/GJS/Holland99.htm

a lengthy article on the subject of Joyce's use of Holland's book.